Supreme Court of India

Union of India and Ors. Etc. Etc. v. Chowgule and Co. Pvt. Ltd. Etc. Etc.

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Reported as [1992] 2 S.C.R. 992
Bench Punchhi J.
Decided 29 April 1992

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, we allow appeals Nos. 2980, 2981 & G 2983 of 1981 and set aside the judgment and orders of the Judicial Commissioner, Goa, Daman and Diu in Writ Petition No. 2/69, 12/69 and "" · 48no holding the impugned orders· and notices issued by the appellants- officers to the respondent writ petitioners as valid and enforceable in accordance with law.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1965 : Section 4-Toxable event under-What is-'Dumpers and Shovels'---Whether taxable. Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 : Section 2( 18). (As amended by Act 100 of 1956)-'Motor Vehicle'-What is-'Dumpers and shovels'-whether Motor Vehicle. The respondents, carrying on mining operations, were using dumpers and shovels which were registered as 'Motor Vehicles' under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939. They were paying tax thereon under. the Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1965. Subsequendy, they stopped paying tax on the ground that they were paying tax thereon under a mistaken belief

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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